Planter attachment for plows



April-10, 1928. 1,665,873

L. BINGER PLANTER ATTACHMENT FOR FLOWS Filed March l6, 1925 HI)"; V 1 I a I I y V I a lAfVE/VZOR A TTORNEV Patented Apr. 10, 1928 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS BINGER, F NORTON, KANSAS.

IELANTER ATTACHMENT FOR PLOWS.

Application filed March 18, 1925. Serial No. 15,825.

This invention relates to a. planter attachheld rigidly by a stay arm 16 which may be ment for plows in multiple and it is particufastened to the front plow in any approprilarly designed to be applied to a three botate manner. The seed dropper may be of tom plow, the plows in the gang being an conventional construction located upon a do ranged so that the combined widths of the shaft 17 carrying a sprocket 18 around plows and the spaces between them will be which passes a chain 19, the chain 19 also approximately equal to the distances between passing around a sprocket 20 on one of the the rows of vegetation, for example corn. wheels of the plow, and if desired an idler This is ordinarily about forty-two inches. 21 may be carried by the plow beam 2 as a 05 10 The seed box for the planter is fastened slack take-up for the chain 19. The subin position to drop the corn, or other seed, soiler 7 on the end of the boot 6 will open up in rear of the first plow which opens up the the bottom of the furrow made by the first furrow and adjacent to the last plow, and in plow in advance of the deposition of the rear thereof, is an uncovering disk which seed. The plows 3 and 4c plow the ground It! removes some of the earth deposited upon at the same time that the corn is being the seed by the last plow so that the seed dropped in the furrow 22, made by the plow will not remain too deep in the ground. 2, so that the ground between the rows will The invention is especially designed for be plowed sin'lultaneously with the dropping use with tractor drawn plows so the dropper of the corn seed. The last plow in the row 20 for the seed box can be operated from one will throw dirt or soil over into the furrow of the wheels of the plow. 22, made by the plow 2, during a previous There are certain novel details of conparallel travel of the gang of plows, so the struction of my invention which will be furrow containing the corn seed will be specifically described hereinafter, reference filled with more earth than good practice 25 being had to the following description in dictates, therefore, in order to insure that connection with the accompanying drawthe corn seed is at the proper depth I proings, in whichvide an earth removing disk 23 on an axle Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a gang 24 carried by the bracket arm 25 having a of plows with my invention applied. right angular extension 26 fastened to the 80 Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the beams of the plows 3 and 4 by U-bolts 27 invention applied, and and 28. The bracket arm 25 is braced by a Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the seed brace bar 29 fastened to the bracket arm 25 box or hopper, the boot for delivering the and to the beam of the plow 4. seed and a sub-soiler, one of the clamping It will be apparent that the attachment 35 members and the fastening means therefor may be easily applied to and removed from being shown detached. the gang of plows according to whether the The tractor 1 may be of conventional conplows are to be used merely for plowing or struction and attached thereto is shown a whether itis desired to plant the seed at the gang of plows, there being three, the beams same time the plowing is accomplished, and

40 being indicated at 2, 3 and 1. This is 0011- it will be further apparent that the plowing Ventional construction. To one of the beams attachment is simple and inexpensive to conis fastened the seed box or hopper. The struct and that it may be sold independently seed box should be fastened to the beam of the plows to be attached without the neof the first plow 2 so as to drop the seed in cessity of employing special tools or rear- 45 the rear of the plow which opens up the ranging the plow construction.

furrow. The hopper 5 has a boot 6 depend- While I have described the invention as ing therefrom with a. sub-soiler 7 at the applied to a single gang of three plows it is lower end. The hopper 5 is rigid on the obvious that more than one gang of plows bracket arm 8 having openings 9 and 10 may be drawn by a single tractor, so I do not 60 which coincides with the openings 11 and 12 wish to be limited to the use of the invention on the clamping plate 13. The bracket arm on a single gang. 8 may rest against one side of the plow beam In actual practice the sprocket 20 will be 2, the clamping plate 13 against the other, mounted on its shaft so that when the lever so that the beam can be clamped bet-ween the 30 is swung forward. to raise the plows and 11 55 members 8 and 13 when the fastening de seed dropper the sprocket 20 will be thrown vices 14 and 15 are in place. The boot 6 is out of clutch engagement with the shaft 31.

During this time, of course, the chain 19 will not be driven, consequently the see-d dropper will not operate. When the lever 30 is swung rearwardly the plows, or ground Working tools,will be lowered into ground working positions, the clutch being thrown in permitting the chain to be driven to operate the seed dropper, I have not shown specifically a form of clutch as the particular form of clutch is immaterial. V

lVhat I claim and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is:

In combination with a gang plow comprisgang for removing the excess earth applied to the seeded furrow by said outer plow during the next succeeding traversal of the gang plow across the field. i

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LOUIS HINGE-R; 

